11-10-2014, 02:59 PM
I think they all find their way back to my pond.
My father had the same problem with squirrels in his backyard. He used a catch-em-live trap, but started to worry the exiled critters were finding their way back to his neighborhood.
I told him to apply a quick spritz of red paint to the back of their tails. He laughed, but a few months later admitted to me that he did try my tracking system. He felt a lot better when none of the recently trapped victims had been "tagged." I felt a lot better when no biologists at the University of Wisconsin had meanwhile discovered a new species of red tailed squirrel.
My father had the same problem with squirrels in his backyard. He used a catch-em-live trap, but started to worry the exiled critters were finding their way back to his neighborhood.
I told him to apply a quick spritz of red paint to the back of their tails. He laughed, but a few months later admitted to me that he did try my tracking system. He felt a lot better when none of the recently trapped victims had been "tagged." I felt a lot better when no biologists at the University of Wisconsin had meanwhile discovered a new species of red tailed squirrel.
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